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How to Sing the Blues

A Primer For Beginners

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1. Most blues begin with "Woke up this morning."

2. "I got a good woman" is a bad way to begin the blues, unless you stick something nasty in the next line, such as "I got a good woman – with the meanest dog in town."

3. Blues are simple. After you have the first line right, repeat it. Then find something else that rhymes. Sort of. "Got me a good woman with the meanest dog in town. He got teeth like Margaret Thatcher and he weighs ’bout 500 pounds."

4. The blues are not about limitless choices.

5. Blues cars are Chevies and Cadillacs. Other acceptable blues transportation is a Greyhound bus or a southbound train. Walkin’ plays a major part in the blues lifestyle. So does fixin’ to die.

6. Teenagers can’t sing the blues. Only adults sing the blues. Blues adulthood means old enough to get the electric chair if you shoot a man in Memphis.

7. You can have the blues in New York City, but not in Brooklyn or Queens. Hard times in Vermont or North Dakota are just a minor depression. Chicago, St. Louis and Kansas City are still the best places to have the blues.

8. The following colors do not belong in the blues:
a. violet b. beige c. mauve d. taupe e. peach

9. You can’t have the blues in an office or a shopping mall; the lighting is all wrong.

10. Good places for the Blues:
a. the highway b. the jail house c. an empty bed

11. Bad places for the Blues:
a. K mart b. Gallery openings c. weekends in the Hamptons

12. No one will believe it’s the blues if you wear a suit, unless you happen to be an old black man.

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WTTS 92.3 is playing through their entire catalog

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Starting at 6 this morning, WTTS radio station began playing through their entire catalog of songs alphabetically. Currently they’ve finished all songs beginning with “All.” I fully realize that I will get made fun of for posting this, since three writers on our IndyScribe team are in a alt/punk band, but somebody needed to put something in the “Music” category.

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Songs of Peace and Freedom 3 (Vol. 4 of Hippie Series)

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A mix I made to add to the protest songs CDs that I made a few years ago; pulling in a few standards that I had missed. Appropriate since there are a whole wave of new protest songs being made to protest the current administration.

1 Your Flag Decal Won’t Get You into Heaven Anymore – John Prine – John Prine – 2:50
2 Black and White – Three Dog Night – Joy to the World: Their Greatest Hits – 3:50
3 New World Coming – Mama Cass – Dream a Little Dream: The Cass Elliott Collection – 2:12
4 The Times They Are a-Changin’ – Bob Dylan – Greatest Hits Volume 1 – 3:16
5 Subterranean Homesick Blues – Bob Dylan – Greatest Hits Volume 1 – 2:22
6 Hurricane – Bob Dylan – Greatest Hits Volume 3 – 8:34
7 Colours – Donovan – What’s Bin Did and What’s Bin Hid – 2:45
8 The Band Played Waltzing Matilda – Priscilla Herdman – The Water Lily – 7:01
9 (What’s So Funny ‘Bout) Peace, Love & Understanding – Uncle Otto – Men Who Smoke – 6:27
10 City Of New Orleans – Arlo Guthrie – Sing America – 4:31
11 All of You Fascists Bound to Lose – Woody Guthrie – The Ballad Operas – The Martins and the Coys – 1:34
12 Last Night I Had the Strangest Dream – Pete Seeger – Waist Deep in The Big Muddy and Other Love Songs – 2:53
13 Peace Train – Cat Stevens – The Very Best Of Cat Stevens – 4:11
14 Night They Drove Ole Dixie Down – Joan Baez – – 3:23
15 Get Up, Stand Up – Bob Marley – Legend – The Best of Bob Marley and the Wailers – 3:17
16 Teach Your Children – Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young – Déjà Vu – 2:59
17 Ohio – Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young – So Far – 3:05
18 Share the Land – The Guess Who – Running Back thru Canada – 5:02
19 The Revolution Will Not Be Televised – Gil Scott-Heron – Pieces of a Man – 3:07
20 Fortunate Son – Creedence Clearwater Revival – Chronicle, Volume I – 2:20

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I’m Sorry My President Is an Idiot. I Didn’t Vote For Him

Deja Vu (All Over Again) – John Fogerty – Deja Vu All Over Again
Reclaim – Copper Wimmin – American Tyranny
Interlude / Give Blood (DJ Spooky Remix) – Saul Williams / DJ Spooky Mix – Adbusters – Live Without Dead Time
American Idiot – Green Day – American Idiot
Make Love Fuck War (Dirty Version) – Moby & Public Enemy – Make Love Fuck War
War – Jonatha Brooke – Protest Records
In A World Gone Mad… – Beastie Boys – Protest Records
Jacob’s Ladder (Not In My Name) – Chumbawamba – Protest Records
Where Is the Love? [Radio Edit] – Black Eyed Peas & Justin Timberlake – Now, Vol. 14
Price of Oil – Billy Bragg – Protest Records
Not In My Name (Pledge of Resistance) – Saul Williams / DJ Spooky Mix – Not In Our Name
Rich Man’s War – Steve Earle – The Revolution Starts Now
Satisfied? – J-Live – Adbusters – Live Without Dead Time
Ugly Man – Rickie Lee Jones – The Evening Of My Best Day
Warrior – Steve Earle – The Revolution Starts Now
Memorial Day – The Perceptionists – Who’s America?
F the CC – Steve Earle – The Revolution Starts Now
No Man’s Land – Saul Williams – No Man’s Land
Jose’s Christmas Trees – Oren Bloedow – Protest Records
Hey! John Ashcroft – American Ambulance – All Over the Map
FCC Song – Eric Idle – Protest Songs
The Bell – Stephan Smith, Pete Seeger, Mary Harris, Dean Ween – Protest Records

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80’s Party Playlist

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Songs from an epic 80’s party I threw. (See the pictures from my party here) The original playlist has 1457 songs in it, and was 4.1 days long. I edited that list down to what you see below. I tried to pick a broad cross-section of music genres and I tried to cover as many iconic tunes as I could, but obviously, I didn’t get everything.

  1. Physical – Olivia Newton-John – 3:45
  2. Venus – Bananarama – 3:52
  3. Secret Rendezvous – Karyn White – 4:12
  4. Love Shack – The B-52’s – 5:21
  5. No More Words – Berlin – 3:55
  6. Obsession – Animotion – 3:58
  7. Jukebox Hero – Foreigner – 4:22
  8. Mr. Roboto – Styx – 5:27
  9. Lovin’ Every Minute of It – Loverboy – 3:33
  10. Rock of Ages – Def Leppard – 4:08
  11. Another One Bites The Dust – Queen – 3:34
  12. Dancing With Myself – Billy Idol – 4:50
  13. Welcome to the Jungle – Guns N’ Roses – 4:33
  14. You Shook Me All Night Long – AC/DC – 3:30
  15. We’re Not Gonna Take It – Twisted Sister – 3:39
  16. I Hate Myself For Loving You – Joan Jett & The Blackhearts – 4:08
  17. Parents Just Don’t Understand – DJ Jazzy Jeff and the Fresh Prince – 5:15
  18. Pass The Dutchie – Musical Youth – 3:27
  19. Pop Muzik – M – 3:21
  20. Rock Me Amadeus – Falco – 3:20
  21. You Make My Dreams – Daryl Hall & John Oates – 3:05
  22. Head Over Heels – The Go-Go’s – 3:37
  23. Walk Like An Egyptian – The Bangles – 3:24
  24. Like A Prayer – Madonna – 5:51
  25. Girl You Know It’s True – Milli Vanilli – 4:12
  26. Beat It – Michael Jackson – 4:19
  27. Escapade – Janet Jackson – 4:45
  28. Run Runaway – Slade – 5:00
  29. King Of Wishful Thinking – Go West – 4:03
  30. Knock On Wood – Amii Stewart – 3:43
  31. Push It – Salt-N-Pepa – 4:31
  32. Let’s Groove – Earth Wind & Fire – 5:37
  33. Little Red Corvette – Prince – 4:56
  34. Erotic City – Prince – 3:55
  35. Jack and Diane – John Mellencamp – 4:19
  36. Freeze Frame – J. Geils Band – 3:59
  37. 867-5309 / Jenny – Tommy Tutone – 3:45
  38. Wrapped Around Your Finger – The Police – 5:13
  39. Born In The U.S.A. – Bruce Springsteen – 4:41
  40. Russians – Sting – 3:58
  41. Sunday Bloody Sunday – U2 – 4:41
  42. What Do All The People Know – The Monroes – 3:28
  43. What I Like About You – The Romantics – 2:58
  44. I’m Gonna Be (500 Miles) – The Proclaimers – 3:40
  45. 19 – Paul Hardcastle – 3:40
  46. Bullet The Blue Sky – U2 – 4:32
  47. Orange Crush – R.E.M. – 3:54
  48. Sledgehammer – Peter Gabriel – 4:54
  49. All I Need – Jack Wagner – 3:30
  50. Somebody’s Baby – Jackson Browne – 4:22
  51. In Your Eyes – Peter Gabriel – 5:29
  52. If You Leave – Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark – 4:27
  53. Don’t You (Forget About Me) – Simple Minds – 4:20
  54. St. Elmo’s Fire (Man In Motion) – John Parr – 4:12
  55. Footloose – Kenny Loggins – 3:49
  56. Wake Me Up Before You Go Go – Wham! – 3:48
  57. Karma Chameleon – Culture Club – 3:58
  58. A Little Respect – Erasure – 3:27
  59. Mediate – INXS – 2:32
  60. Just Can’t Get Enough – Depeche Mode – 3:36
  61. It’s A Sin – Pet Shop Boys – 4:59
  62. I Want Your Sex – George Michael – 9:17
  63. You Spin Me Right Round – Dead or Alive – 4:27
  64. Voices Carry – ‘Til Tuesday – 4:24
  65. Video Killed The Radio Star – The Buggles – 3:14
  66. Mexican Radio – Wall Of Voodoo – 4:08
  67. Safety Dance – Men Without Hats – 4:33
  68. One Night in Bangkok – Murray Head – 4:08
  69. Goody Two Shoes – Adam Ant – 3:28
  70. Veronica – Elvis Costello – 3:10
  71. Union of the Snake – Duran Duran – 4:22
  72. Down Under – Men at Work – 3:45
  73. Love Is a Stranger – Eurythmics – 3:39
  74. Life In A Northern Town – The Dream Academy – 4:18
  75. I Ran (So Far Away) – A Flock of Seagulls – 3:46
  76. 88 Lines About 44 Women – The Nails – 4:54
  77. Brass In Pocket – The Pretenders – 3:07
  78. Cars – Gary Numan – 3:49
  79. Magic – The Cars – 3:59
  80. I Melt With You – Modern English – 3:51
  81. I Want Candy – Bow Wow Wow – 2:47
  82. In A Big Country – Big Country – 3:56
  83. Kids In America – Kim Wilde – 3:29
  84. My Girl (Gone, Gone, Gone) – Chilliwack – 3:59
  85. Oh Yeah – Yello – 3:05
  86. One Thing Leads To Another – The Fixx – 3:16
  87. Whisper To A Scream (Birds Fly) – The Icicle Works – 3:46
  88. You Might Think – The Cars – 3:06
  89. And She Was – Talking Heads – 3:39
  90. Rise – Public Image Ltd. – 4:29
  91. Tainted Love – Soft Cell – 2:36
  92. Punk Rock Girl – Dead Milkmen – 2:37
  93. London Calling – The Clash – 3:19
  94. Just Like Heaven – The Cure – 3:32
  95. Panic – The Smiths – 2:13
  96. Don’t Leave Me This Way – Communards – 4:34
  97. Heaven Knows I’m Miserable – The Smiths – 3:33
  98. The Killing Moon – Echo & The Bunnymen – 5:46
  99. Under the Milky Way – The Church – 4:59
  100. Blue Monday – New Order – 7:29
  101. Love Will Tear Us Apart – Joy Division – 3:24
  102. Institutionalized – Suicidal Tendencies – 3:28
  103. Cotton Crown – Sonic Youth – 5:08
  104. Relax – Frankie Goes to Hollywood – 3:53
  105. Money For Nothing – Dire Straits – 4:06
  106. She Blinded Me With Science – Thomas Dolby – 3:42
  107. I Wanna Be A Cowboy – Boys Don’t Cry – 3:41
  108. Theme From The Dukes Of Hazzard (Good Ol’ Boys) – Waylon Jennings – 2:10
  109. We Are The World – USA For Africa – 7:01
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Weekend Update 2004-09-27

Stephanie and I did a ton of work at my house this weekend to get the place ready for the party I’m throwing this coming Saturday. Mainly we did a lot of cleaning and organizing.
The party will be a retro 80’s party… and in gathering up stuff to wear, we’ve seen tons of appropriate stuff in the stores. Target has leg warmers and fishnet stockings. Pac-Sun and Hot Topic have checkered vans, t-shirts and the big oversized belts from the 80’s. Hot Topic has buttons of 80’s bands. Izods and Polo shirts are back at Lazarus.
This is a great site for ideas about the 80’s… InThe80s.com. I pulled a lot of ideas about decor from here, and there’s lots of helpful stuff about clothes, too.
We finally got to see the finale of The Amazing Race this weekend — that made me very happy, because I had been cheering for Chip and Kim for quite awhile, mainly because they treated each other very well and worked together throughout the whole race, and they did, for the most part, play fair with everyone all the way along.

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American Idiot Lyrics

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Lyrics to the new Green Day song that’s at the top of the charts right now. From their new Album “American Idiot”

Don’t wanna be an American idiot.
Don’t want a nation under the new media.
And can you hear the sound of hysteria?
The subliminal mind-fuck America.
Welcome to a new kind of tension.
All across the alien nation.
Where everything isn’t meant to be okay.
Television dreams of tomorrow.
We’re not the ones who’re meant to follow.
For thats enough to argue.
Well maybe I’m the faggot America.
I’m not a part of a redneck agenda.
Now everybody do the propaganda.
And sing along in the age of paranoia.
Welcome to a new kind of tension.
All across the alien nation.
Where everything isn’t meant to be okay.
Television dreams of tomorrow.
We’re not the ones who’re meant to follow.
For thats enough to argue.
Don’t wanna be an American idiot.
One nation controlled by the media.
Information Age of hysteria.
It’s going out to idiot America.
Welcome to a new kind of tension.
All across the alien nation.
Where everything isn’t meant to be okay.
Television dreams of tomorrow.
We’re not the ones who’re meant to follow.
For thats enough to argue.

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Good Morning! Song to sing early in the morning

I made a couple different versions of this CD, and added some songs to it later. Originally I made this for my friends Mia and Ria, because they were talking about how Mia is a morning person and Ria isn’t. Mia likes to get up and putter around the house singing in the morning. So I thought I’d give her some songs to sing.

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80’s Music From Doug

98 compilation CDs. 662 Artists. 1352 Songs, 3.7 Days worth of music. 7.28 GB of disk space. Of course, there are duplicate songs, so the numbers on the final count will change, and I have quite a few 80’s CDs in my own collection. I still have to add the collections together and eliminate duplicates. And assess what might be missing.
But it’s going to be a kick-ass 80’s party. We’re looking at early October…
And Dan and Doug’s 70’s party will be Saturday, July 17th. Let me know if you want to attend. It’s the 10th Annual, so Doug and Dan have the music perfect every time.

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Country Songs about Pickup Trucks

I made this mix to play in my pickup, because people kept joking about me becoming a country music fan after I bought one.

1 Redneck Woman – Gretchen Wilson – Redneck Woman – Single
2 What Was I Thinkin’ – Dierks Bentley – Dierks Bentley
3 Big Ol’ Truck – Toby Keith – Toby Keith: Greatest Hits, Vol.1
4 Pickup Man – Joe Diffie – Joe Diffie: Super Hits
5 Park the Pickup (Kiss the Girl) – Chad Brock – III
6 Passenger Seat – SHeDAISY – Passenger Seat – Single
7 She Want to Drive My Truck (Special Dance Mix Track) – Jim Wise – She Wants to Drive My Truck
8 That Ain’t My Truck (Back Porch Acoustic Version) – Rhett Akins – Friday Night in Dixie
9 My Ole Pickup Truck Never Lets Me Down – Doc Bates – You Should Be Here
10 The Truck Song – Lyle Lovett – My Baby Don’t Tolerate
11 Pickup Truck – Jason Spooner – Lost Houses
12 Ragged Old Truck – Johnny Paycheck – The Soul & The Edge – The Best of Johnny Paycheck
13 Corvette, Cadillac, Pickup Truck – Don Papillon – Corvette, Cadillac, Pickup Truck
14 Drive a Truck – J. Stephen Howard – Dreams
15 Girls in Pickups – Kent Earl Housman – Wham Bam Man
16 If This Old Truck Holds Out – Bryan James – Always Be Kind Pt.1
17 Love Like a Truck – Steve Goodbar – A Track in Time
18 My Truck – Pat Dailey – Freshwater
19 Pickup Truck – Rodney Carrington – Rodney Carrington: Greatest Hits
20 That Old Truck – J.C. Hyke – Fallin’
21 The More I Know About Women, the Better I Like My Truck – Tony Villar – Tima 2000
22 This Old Truck – John Williamson – John Williamson

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